This week the quote chosen is "Stable is a place where horses live" and all I had was a Dylusion unicorn to illustrate the concept of a horse with. So a snip at the horns and a bit of strategic colouring and voila - we have a horse.
I really struggled with this one, perhaps because I was tired and not really thinking things out fully, or had I become jaded with all the Christmas card making of the last few days and needed a break from my untidy craftroom. Whatever it was all my mind went to was a psychiatrist and a patient - with a horses head somewhere in the picture but when it came to weaving a story around it I struggled and struggled. As what story I made up around my figures it just did not seem to work. The delete button saw more action than it normally does. In the end I decided on:
"Angelina was a typical teenager, moody, sulky, untidy, and, quite often, mouthy! Her parents were not particularly wealthy but she had her own horse in the paddock attached to their home, much to the envy of her friends at school. She was definitely a "daddy's girl" who had only to pull a certain face and moan that she wanted something to reduce him to reaching into his wallet and giving her whatever she wanted - well, within reason.
Her mother, on the other hand, was the one who had to put up with the sulks and mood changes and pick up after her but she had come to the end of her patience and decided that things needed to change. Angelina had to start helping a little around the house.
Take, for example, her own room! It was always so very untidy and all Angelina did was lie on her bed and either chat to friends on the phone or read one of those trashy novels. Well, mum had had enough on this particular morning and so she stormed into her daughter's bedroom and confronted the lounging Angelina with an ultimatum. Either Angelina started to look after her own room, including dusting and vacuuming (which meant she had to put her books and clothes away tidily in future) or there would be consequences. In fact, as she told her daughter, "it's like a stable in here" to which Angelina sulkily replied "a Stable is a place where horses live". Her mother was so angry at that retort that she threatened to make her daughter live outside with her horse in a real stable."
Told you I was struggling, let's hope I can do better with next week's quote. Now what did we agree on? Will it have a Christmas theme? In the meantime I am linking this to Art Journal Journey in the hope that it makes me realise that the above describes my craft room at the moment and I had better get in there and do some serious tidying up before giving it a clean for Christmas.
